Overview
- Ermont was the hardest-hit town about 17 kilometers north of Paris, with severe damage reported across several neighborhoods.
- The fatality was a construction worker killed when one of three toppled cranes fell onto a site, according to the prefecture.
- Roofs were ripped off, walls damaged, and dozens of trees uprooted, disrupting roads, the Transilien line H and the RER C before partial service resumed.
- Authorities deployed roughly 80 firefighters, 50 police officers and 20 SAMU staff, opened shelters for evacuees, and began large-scale cleanup.
- Nearby communes including Eaubonne, Andilly, Montmorency and Franconville reported damage; local posts described a waterspout near a hospital, and some outlets cited gusts near 200 km/h and a crane striking the Clos-Fleuri institute.